Wedge Clock Calibration
Why this drill
Three backswing lengths across your wedges turns the terror zone between 30 and 90 yards into a lookup table. Knowing that your 9 o'clock sand wedge flies 62 yards is worth more strokes than any swing change this year will give you.
Setup
Two or three wedges, twenty to thirty balls, and range flags or markers at known distances. A notecard or phone for the chart. Picture your lead arm as the hour hand of a clock.
The drill
With your most-lofted wedge, hit five balls stopping the backswing at 7:30 — hands barely past your trail thigh. Watch where they land against the range markers and write the carry down. Five more at 9 o'clock (lead arm horizontal), five at 10:30. Same tempo and a full finish on every ball; the backswing length is the only variable. Repeat with the next wedge if balls allow. You leave with a written grid — wedges down the side, clock positions across — that becomes the first page of your on-course notes.
One thought to take with you
The backswing sets the distance; the through-swing is always committed.